Bicycle lights, one of the ultimate safety features for riding this time of year when it gets dark early or the sun never seems to peak out behind the clouds, are getting less expensive every day. But really, how good are they? How good can they be for less than $20?

We've now been using the #UFITBIKELIGHT for a week on our son's bicycle, especially as he rides home between 5-5:30 and it has gotten dark out.

First, let me mention the ease of installation. No tools needed! The light accepts 3 AAA batteries just like a flashlight, which in fact is exactly what it is. The unit is a flashlight that fits snugly in a handlebar mount. This makes it extremely versatile when you are out and about. The mount itself goes on easily with a few hand turns of the tightening screw. The rear reflector, even easier with a rubber clasp. And, the flashlight, also with a hand screw..

So far, the unit works great! It has 3 settings, high beam, low beam and strobe light. It's easy to turn on and off. The batteries seem to last, at least we haven't had to replace them yet. I'll need to wait until next year to see how the unit lasts season to season though.

I first need to admit that I've never been a huge selfie fan, and I've always thought the ones out looking for the perfect selfie shot were a a bit too in to themselves.

But I recently received the above #GnomeWorkshop Bluetooth Foldable Selfie Stick, and I am now a convert. A while back I had tried one, it was not bluetooth enabled, and it had a wire you plug into the earphone jack, and I remember originally thinking that I can take pics of my wife and I, or the entire family, when we go places. But the wire was always a pain, and I quickly lost interest.

Now I have this bluetooth enabled selfie stick and WOW what a difference!! The other one always seemed to lag, this one does not seem to lag at all when I click the button. After a simple set up to pair the bluetooth devices, it is a snap (no pun intended) to take all the selfies you want.

We've always gone on vacation, sometimes just my wife and I, sometimes the whole family, and I've always thought it a shame that my wife and I were hardly ever in the photos together. I remember thinking it was so cool when the smart phones began including a front facing camera, but those photos were never quite right, as neither of us have long enough arms to actually get a picture of both of us and some of the background scenery. However, with the 3 foot telescopic handle on the Gnome Workshop selfie stick, you can actually see what we were posing in front of, and, you can include the whole family.

This is a great item to take anywhere with you, it fits in a pocket, purse, tote bag, glove box, pretty much anywhere. It is very lightweight so you won't mind carrying it around all day. This would also make a great gift for any selfie lover, it comes in a nice box.

This #xtremecanteen Canteen is awesome. I have taken it camping, taken it skiing, I even keep it in the car. No more water bottles that get warm so quick.

I always like cold drinks, and this canteen keeps them cold all day long. I even use it while I am home as it keeps drinks cold, and ensures that I don't make a mess when I inevitably knock it over. I mostly drink water so I keep it filled all day long and it stays very cold.

It is very easy to clean. Rinse it with soapy water and it is clean. 8/8 Food grade stainless steel, BPA FREE. I will take this everywhere I go. It has a nice handle to carry and is a large 32oz.

This will be great to take to the beach, or even just to the gym.

I received this Canteen complimentary in exchange for my unbiased review and opinion. All opinions and words are my own.

Have you ever been at the airport, ravaging through your luggage, moving things from one suitcase to another, in a mad dash to bring your suitcase weight down below the threshold of the airline penalty charge?

This luggage scale #DigiLuggScale can save the day. It is light, accurate, and very simple to use. You can easily take it with you on a trip and it is much easier than holding luggage while standing on a scale.

Here are some of the things I liked about theTribetailer Scalertailer digital scale:

It is very easy to read. The digital readout is right on. It beeps when it has determined what the weight is. I even used it once at the airport where the airport scale read a 1/2 lb overweight, and the Tribetailer read 0.1 lb underweight. And, they accepted it!

It uses a clip instead of a hook. Most travel scales I have seen just have a hook. The strap and clip on this make it more secure.

The handle is comfortable and easy to use.

Does both kilos and lbs. Easy to switch; just hold down the button. Fantastic for international travel; saves you the hassle of having to do conversions.

It is very light. Is not going to take up extra weight in your luggage.

Accurate. I tested this out using my bathroom scale and it is indeed accurate!

If you are a frequent traveler for either business or pleasure, this digital luggage scale can easily be a terrific travel accessory..

Smart phones are everywhere now. I have one, my wife has one, both of our kids have them. And, while that should add up to 4, for some reason, there are 6 fully functioning phones in our house. We have 2 iPhone 6+ units, 2 iPhone 4G's and an old Samsung and even older LG
unit.

And just as ubiquitous, are cases, bags and screen protectors! Everything from cheap flimsy things, to military-grade, desert and amphibious warfare-spec'd industrial cases all meant to protect that "smart" investment of yours. (Why is it that we never had to buy all of this "protection" for our old flip phones?)

When intelliARMOR sent me an #intelliGLASS screen protector to try, I have to say, I was not expecting much. I mean, really, how much can a screen protector stand out? We've all had them, we've all fought those pesky air bubbles.

The first thing I noticed - this is not your everyday, run of the mill screen protector. For less than $15, you receive a substantial, book-sized package. Definitely more than the thin envelope and cleaning cloth I was expecting!

And inside, it just got better!
The protector itself? It’s a lot more rigid than your typical protector. It is much more glass than plastic. It has more the feel of that military-spec'd case than a screen protector.

To install. Essentially, wipe down the screen with the alcohol wipe, wipe clean, use the special sticky dust remover (nice touch), and install th protector, smooth it out.

The protector practically installed itself. I carefully lined it up and laid it on at one end, and it smoothed itself all the way to to the top. With no bubbles at all.
​Here’s a quick video of how easy the install is:

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It was strange at first, just using my phone "naked". At first I was very timid with holding it, picking it up, especially setting it down. I was so used to having it in a much larger case (never knew when I'd be deployed to a war zone). But, you get used to it, and, after a while, it is much more elegant than boxed in one of those cases.

I fully expected the corners of the protector to curl and work themselves free from the phone. But it hasn’t happened with the #intelliGLASS yet. I imagine that’s because it is a lot sturdier, and more rigid than others I've tried.
My screen certainly is smudge and streak free. It’s easy to clean.
In all, I really like the intelliGLASS screen protectors, they’re the best I’ve seen yet. They also make them for tablets as well.
intelliGLASS is part of a new line of screen protectors at intelliARMOR. Here is some more information direct from their site:

EXCEPTIONALLY STRONG – Specially crafted to deliver maximum scratch resistance and defend against even the hardest bumps and knocks. intelliGLASS is designed to have better scratch resistance than steel.

OLEOPHOBIC COATING – Say no to smudges and fingerprints. intelliGLASS sports a specially formulated oleophobic coating that resists all signs of contact with your finger.

EFFORTLESS INSTALLATION – Forget trial-and-error installations. With advanced silicone adhesion technology, you’ll get it on perfectly the first time! And if it doesn't, all our products are backed by our world-class customer support.

​Speedo Vanquisher 2.0

Speedo Vanquisher is an advanced 2.0-mirrored swim goggle with a stylish blue and silver theme. Its ultra-low profile design is light, stylish, and offers 25% more peripheral vision than most classic goggles in the market. For optimal comfort and protection, it has soft eye seals made of a non-irritant silicone. The mirror-coated glass used to manufacture it minimizes glare. Its head strap is comfortable and has an adjustable clip for a custom fit, while its newly improved and interchangeable nose piece design is very impressive for its price. As most high-grade goggles, Speedo Vanquisher is UV protected. It is anti-fog, 100% PVC-free, and has a stylish streamlined. I received this in exchange for an honest review.

​U-FIT Comfort Swim Goggles

For the best swimming experience in both indoor and outdoor environments, here is the first of two U-FIT goggles as our pick of the best swim goggles in the market. It is durable, has a novel chinstrap technology that keeps it snug and comfortable, and a unique form-fitting design that benefits male and female swimmers. It is also affordable, offers UV and anti-fog protection, and has both support and return warranties. I received this in exchange for an honest review.

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Aqua Sphere Seal XP

Do you enjoy swimming? Are you shopping for a new swim mask on a budget? Aqua Sphere Seal XP will never disappoint you. It is dark themed, has a wide lens design with a clear line of sight when fully submerged, and has a durable one-piece construction that is durable and super comfortable. As most high grade goggles, Aqua Sphere Seal XP is scratch and fog resistant. It offers 100% UV protection, has a watertight skirt that prevents leakage of water, and an easy-to-adjust buckle system that works well. You get a 2-year warranty for it. I received this in exchange for an honest review.

U-FIT Performance Swim Goggles

These are 100% U.V. protection, anti-fog and shatter design with mirrored lenses! The mirrored lenses are coated and not only do they look great on, but they perform great as well! The vision is clear through these goggles, which is a problem with many of the other brands and the anti-shatter technology protects these against scratches from falls or whatever may damage the lens! I received this in exchange for an honest review.

Aguaphile Mirrored Swim Goggles

Finally, the Aguaphiles. Immediately the deep, soft-looking eye cups make themselves evident, and user reviews corroborate that they're both comfortable and provide a good seal. Fogging is minimized by a coating on the lenses, which also offer solid visibility underwater. They also collect a good amount of praise for the case, which is both solid and features a particularly clever locking mechanism. Unfortunately the case can arrive with either cracks or a damaged mechanism, which reduces its usefulness somewhat, but that's a definite minority of cases. The eye cups are also a little on the large side, so if an efficient shape is a make-or-break concern for you, these may not be ideal. I received this in exchange for an honest review.

Winter is coming. It's time to keep those hands warm. When touchscreen phones first became popular, this time of year meant no gloves, or no phone. Now, there are a ton of gloves on the market. My last pair of gloves left the touchscreen sensitive fingertips freezing cold, to where I had to wear gloves over them in order to stay warm. Already, with some of the early snow we've had, the Touchscreen Gloves Urban Style by Glider Gloves have worked flawlessly, allowed me to keep up my smart phone addiction, and still manage to keep my hands warm.

​The Touchscreen Gloves Urban Style gloves are warm, sturdy and thick and also allow you to use touchscreen devices with any finger you choose. I was amazed with the touchscreen sensitivity. These gloves have, by far, the best touchscreen sensitivity of any gloves that I have tried.

The palms and lower fingers have rubber gripping to prevent your phone from sliding out of your hands while holding it. I found it also very convenient for driving, as it kept a good grip on my steering wheel while I was making turns. And, first thing in the morning, completely took the sting out of freezing cold steering wheel (one day I'll get a car with a heated steering wheel!).

The gloves come in three different colors and sizes exist for adults and for children.

One little bonus feature is the tag. Yes, no joke, the tag. The tag on the gloves has care instructions, as expected, but it is also an actual microfiber screen wipe cloth! I almost cut the tag off out of habit, but stopped short when I read the tag. And it works great!

If you’ve been looking for a pair of touchscreen gloves that can keep your hands warm without being too bulky, you should definitely check out the Urban Style Glider Gloves. For more information about Glider Gloves and their other styles of gloves, you can also visit their website.
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The Urban style Glider Gloves are low profile, light weight, and slim fitting. The grey version is a limited edition colour and only available while quantities last, a lighter alternate option to black. They provide warmth and protection for shorter periods of time outdoors and offer unbeatable touch accuracy and dexterity for easy typing and multi-touch gestures. Available only in size small, they are a fun solution for commuters, joggers, children, and dog walkers.

NeatConnect is a scanner, but would be more correctly labeled a digital personal organizer - an entire ecosystem designed to help organize the paper jungle. Yes, it scans documents, receipts, business cards and more, but it’s more about what happens after you scan. Where do all those scans go and how are they organized? That’s where the long established Neat platform steps into place, because scans are worthless if you can’t find them.
​NeatConnect takes everything you thought you knew about scanners and throws it out the window. For starters, the scanner comes with a USB port, but it’s taped over so you won’t use it and probably won’t even see it. NeatConnect is all about “the cloud” and by that I mean online storage on Neat’s servers. To get connected you’ll need a Neat account combined with a five-minute setup process that gets the scanner onto your home Wi-Fi network. All you do is plug-in the power cord, and follow the touch-screen menu. The whole setup is very intuitive, but you will need to have your home Wi-Fi password handy.

During scanner setup, you will create a Neat online account, which is where all of your personal documents will be stored. From here on you can simply start scanning. There are three slots, sized for different sized documents, receipts, or business cards, respectively. You can put as much as will fit into the slots and wait for it to finish scanning. Its sucks them through pretty fast, at about a page every 2 seconds. Everything is instantly stored, but more importantly organized in your NeatCloud online account, known as your “Inbox”. Nothing gets scanned to your PC or Mac, it’s all in the cloud. Of course you can download from the cloud, but you probably won’t and don’t want to. Each item type is labeled and its contents are converted into exportable/readable numbers and text. Now your mess of papers instantly becomes searchable.

The OCR (optical character recognition) capability was "good" in decoding what was scanned, but not "great". Most problematic were dark background business cards with light type. We couldn't quite get those to work, however in general, it worked very well. Full page, white paper documents were handled the best, followed by receipts, and finally business cards.

The other part of the Neat platform is their mobile App, which turns any smartphone with a camera into a scanner. You simply snap a photo of anything on-the-go, and it gets stored/decoded in NeatCloud right along with all your other scans. More importantly, the App allows easy access to every item you’ve ever scanned from your NeatCloud Inbox.You can also use the mobile App with NeatCloud without every owning the home desktop scanner. Just create an account, download the mobile app and start snapping.
With NeatCloud, gone are the days of trying to organize scans in a never ending directory structure. Neat manages it all so you don’t have to think about it. You can just scan, upload files, or even email your Neat account items with or without attachments to get your digital life organized with minimum effort. The best part is everything can be exported to Excel, TurboTax, QuickBooks, and other online services.

A NeatConnect purchase is truly more about the software/services than the scanner itself. The company bundles the $120 premium service into the scanner’s cost, bringing your out-the-door price to $500. Once you’re hooked, and you will be, expect to pay $60 or $120/year more depending on your usage needs.
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I was pleasantly surprised how the Neat ecosystem teaches, almost encourages, you to be more diligent about scanning paper, uploading files, or using your phone to capture items. You will, without a doubt, be more organized with Neat, and that fact alone makes it easy to recommend.

To commemorate its 90th Anniversary, Bang & Olufsen is launching their all new BeoLab 90, the most complete and powerful digital loudspeaker that Bang & Olufsen has ever designed for home use. The new BeoLab 90 is fitted with Bang & Olufsen’s new Active Room Compensation technology, which compensates for the room it is placed in, ensuring optimal sound with exceptional detail and imaging. Not just a passive piece in the audio chain, the new BeoLab 90 is an intelligent loudspeaker that measures the acoustical effects of its surroundings and directs optimal sound to the listening position.

The BeoLab 90 offers a unique Beam Width Control, which enables the width of the sound beam to be adjusted to suit different listening situations – going from a focused dedicated sweet spot to a more diffuse presentation that complements home theatre and situations demanding a wide and room filling sound. Using multiple drivers placed in various directions, the Beam Direction Control can steer the radiated sound to match your listening choice.

BeoLab 90 has a unique and impressive appearance with no apparent visual front, which substantiates the all-embracing acoustic performance of the loudspeaker. The 360º-design is based on a complex aluminium cabinet totalling more than 65 kg of aluminium, so the structure is rock solid. The black fabric covers hover like sails in front of the speakers, and the curved wooden base lifts up the large structure from the floor, allowing the loudspeaker to fit in with the interior design anywhere in your home.

JBL's exclusive San Francisco launch party kicks off the release of the JBL by Harman Everest Series of Wireless Headphones. The JBL Everest series is comprised of wireless headphones in different styles: in-ear, on-ear, and around-ear. Features include Bluetooth 4.0 and NXTGen Active Noise Canceling Technology, JBL Pro Audio, TruNote Auto Sound Calibration, ShareMe 2.0, Auto-Off functionality, and support for the My JBL Headphones app.

"The JBL Everest wireless headphones series sets a new standard for connected headphones. For the first time in a wireless headphone, HARMAN unites lifestyle design and meaningful new technology, addressing consumer needs in a way no other company has," president of HARMAN's lifestyle audio division, Michael Mauser, said in the company's release to announce the JBL Everest series of headphones. "We deliver an unparalleled experience with our blend of sound quality, comfort and personalization."

In addition, HARMAN says the JBL Everest series' flagship model, the ELITE 700, has "the most innovative and inclusive set of features ever packed into wireless headphones." In addition to offering 15 hours of playtime with the Bluetooth 4.1 wireless connectivity and NXTGen active noise cancelling technology, the ELITE 700 also boasts TruNote auto sound calibration and an auto off feature.

The TruNote auto sound calibration delivers audio tones based on how ear cups fit around the ears for an completely custom experience, while the auto off feature automatically shuts off the headphones to preserve its battery life.​In addition, offered with the Everest line is the free, downloadable My JBL Headphones app, which allows users to further customize their headphone noise canceling levels and create a more custom experience.

JBL Everest Wireless Headphones Series Feature Details:

BT 4.1: Connect to any Bluetooth-enabled device for amazing sound quality without the hassle of wires.

Legendary JBL Pro Audio: Experience the same elevated experience and incredible sound JBL has been delivering to concert halls, studios and living rooms for almost 70 years.

Best in Class Ergonomics These ear cups are carefully designed to fit all ears, and not just sit on top of them. This is achieved through extensive research on human ear shapes and anatomy, developing proprietary contoured ear cushions, and earpiece shapes. As a result, listeners experience unprecedented comfort—allowing a longer, more enjoyable experience.

NXTGen ANC: For the first time, JBL combines the immersive experience of active noise-cancelling technology and allows control of the amount of ambient noise let in. Users have the power to balance awareness of their surroundings with the listening experience, with a simple press of a button.

TruNoteTM Auto Sound Calibration: Listeners will be blown away with the cleanest, most authentic version of music possible. TruNoteTM Auto Sound calibrates sound based on how ear cups fit around the ears, for a personalized audio experience.

ShareMe 2.0: Connect with any brand of Bluetooth headphone and share music, videos and games with friends – easily and wirelessly.

Auto Off: Experience greater simplicity and a longer battery life with the auto off feature which powers the headphones off automatically when not in use

My JBL Headphones App: Get even more control and personalization of your listening experience with this free App. Through your mobile device, you can create custom EQ settings, and access all other headphone settings and features.

JBL Everest Wireless Headphones Series Feature Set by Product:

JBL Everest Series Pricing and Availability: The JBL Everest Series (MSRP $299-$99) will be available in the U.S. November 8, 2015. Shoppers can purchase the JBL Everest Series only at Best Buy retail locations or online at JBL.com and at BestBuy.com. For more information check www.jbl.com/Everest-Headphones.

At the end of the night we were treated to a phenomenal lyrical feast by San Francisco's own, singer-songwriter, Rozzi Crane.